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"Well now, sir," remarked the sailor, "d'ee know that same thought has puzzled me now an' again; for although my purfession is the sea, I've travelled a good bit on the land specially in South America and I've seen miles on miles o' splendid country, that made me think of Adam an' Eve in paradise, with never a soul, as you say, to make use of or enjoy it.
"If it would improve your voice, Terrence," observed Mr Mitford, meekly, "I'm sure I wish ye had pounds of it, for it's that harsh though, of course, I make no pretence to music myself, but " "Just listen to that now, `Harsh! an' that to a man whose own mother, by the father's side, towld him he shud make music his purfession!
I'm a sailor, I am, out and out, through and through true blue, and no mistake, an' no one need go for to try to cause me for to forsake my purfession, and live on shore like a turnip' that's wot I says to that old gen'lemen. Yes, lads, I've roamed the wide ocean, as the song says, far an' near.
"'Scuse me," and Bill Bush now addressed himself immediately to Helmsley, "ef I may be so bold as to arsk you wheer ye comes from, meanin' no 'arm, an' what's yer purfession?" Helmsley looked up with a friendly smile. "I've no profession now," he answered at once. "But in my time before I got too old I did a good deal of office work." "Office work! In a 'ouse of business, ye means?
Weller, 'as vell as for the other kind and gen'rous people o' the same purfession, as sets people by the ears, free gratis for nothin', and sets their clerks to work to find out little disputes among their neighbours and acquaintances as vants settlin' by means of lawsuits all I can say o' them is, that I vish they had the reward I'd give 'em.
"Come now," cried Jack Molloy, seating himself on the floor, and leaning his back against the wall; "it do seem to me, as you putt it, Stevenson, that the charge ought to be all the other way; for we, who make no purfession of religion at all, thinks ourselves so far righteous that we've got no need of a Saviour.
Gittin' all square, eh?" I repressed a smile with difficulty as I replied "It is much better, thank you. Attend to what Dr McTougall has to say to you." "Hall serene," he replied, looking with cool urbanity in the doctor's face, "fire away!" "You're a shoeblack, I see," said the doctor. "That's my purfession." "Do you like it?"
"I come upon 'im lyin' under a tree wi' a mossel book aside 'im, an' I takes an' looks at the book, an' 'twas all portry an' simpleton stuff like, an' 'e looked old enough to be my dad, an' tired enough to be fast goin' where my dad's gone, so I just took 'im along wi' me, an' giv' 'im my name an' purfession, an' 'e did the same, a-tellin' me as 'ow 'is name was D. David, an' 'ow 'e 'd lost 'is office work through bein' too old an' shaky.
I have been,’ added Ikey, ‘in the purfession these fifteen year, and I never met vith such windictiveness afore!’ ‘Poor creeturs!’ exclaimed the coal-dealer’s wife once more: again resorting to the same excellent prescription for nipping a sigh in the bud. ‘Ah! when they’ve seen as much trouble as I and my old man here have, they’ll be as comfortable under it as we are.’
But that was on my own account intirely, and not as a purfession; and a sorrowful time I had of it too, for I was for iver burnin' my fingers promiskiously, and fallin' into the fire ivery day more or less " "Stand by to hoist top-gallant-sails," shouted the captain. "How's her head?" "South and by east sir," answered the man at the wheel. "Keep her away two points. Look alive lads.
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